New Horizons Computer Learning Center
410-597-9722

Learning to Program Using Visual Basic 2005

Course Length: 5 Days

Overview:
In this course, you'll learn to use Visual Studio 2005 to explore the Visual Basic 2005 language. The course starts with a quick overview of the .NET platform, examining assemblies, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Visual Studio profiles, XML comments, IntelliSense, and debugging. From there, you'll learn all the language features that you must internalize in order to create full-featured Web or Windows applications that make best use of the .NET platform. You'll learn about data types, variables, and operators, along with all the important flow control structures. You'll work through several examples demonstrating the power of the .NET Framework, and dig into creating and consuming your own classes and objects. The course moves on to working with data structures, such as arrays and collection classes, before finishing up with discussions of generics, handling exceptions and working with delegates and events. By the end of this course, you will understand the important basic concepts that will allow you to start creating the applications you need.

Prerequisites:
This course assumes that students have some programming background. No specific experience with Visual Studio 2005 or the .NET Framework is required. As with any such course, the more experience you bring to the course, the more you'll get out of it. This course moves quickly through a broad range of programming topics, but it does not require any prior .NET skills.

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Build and debug applications using Visual Studio 2005
• Create and use variables, operators, and data types
• Find and use the classes you need within the .NET Framework
• Manage flow control within your code, branching and looping as needed
• Create and consume classes and objects
• Add and consume properties and methods in your classes
• Make use of .NET's object-oriented features, such as overloading, inheritance and interfaces
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate multiple values using arrays
• Work with .NET 2.0's generics
• Make best use of the .NET Framework's support for collection classes
• Handle exceptions in your code
• Create and use delegates, and understand how they relate to events

Course Content

Lesson 1: Getting Started with .NET

• Thinking about .NET
• Using Visual Studio 2005
• Debugging Your Code and Handling Exceptions

Lesson 2: Data Types and Variables

• Introducing Variables and Data Types
• Working with Variables and Data Types

Lesson 3: Using the .NET Framework

• Using .NET Framework Classes
• Working with Strings
• Working with Dates and Times
• The My Namespace

Lesson 4: Branching and Flow Control

• Conditional Branching
• Repeating Code Blocks
• Unconditional Branching

Lesson 5: Classes and Objects

• Introducing Objects and Classes
• Creating Your Own Class
• Working with Classes

Lesson 6: Properties and Methods

• Overview of Properties and Methods
• Properties
• Methods

Lesson 7: Object-Oriented Techniques

• Inheritance
• Interfaces
• Organizing Classes

Lesson 8: Working with Arrays

• Introducing Arrays
• Manipulating Arrays

Lesson 9: Delegates and Events

• Motivating Delegates
• Introducing Delegates
• Working with Events

Lesson 10: Generics

• Introducing Generics
• Generics and Arrays
• Generic Constraints
• Generics and Lists

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